Brightcove players offer you a choice of settings that viewers can use to share the video. Two of them are closely related and easy to confuse:

• The Get Link button presents the viewer with a direct link to the player and a button that copies the link to the clipboard, so it can be pasted into an email or instant message:

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So we've blogged about this special relationship we have with Facebook here and here and now we have a practical real world example of the integration!

You may have noticed that sharing a Youtube link to your Facebook Wall/Newsfeed results in an embedded version of that video. Did you know you can also do this with Brightcove? All you need to do is add some metadata to your video pages and when links to those pages are shared, you videos will be embedded in Facebook, check it out below:

1.) Post Link:

I'm heading down to give my 15mins of cents to the London Facebook Garage tonight.

For those not able to make it tonight we're going to do what we did with the Drupal for Marketing event and stream this live over the BC3 platform.

We'll also have the same tie into a Facebook Livestream box and you can embed the stream directly into your FB Profile by clicking the button in-player.

You can see more about the event here : http://www.facebookgarage.co.uk/

Enjoy!

Just an FYI - for those in the London area that are keen, there is a Facebook Garage user group tomorrow night (November 11th) which I'll be presenting at.

I'm going to spend my 15 minutes of fame looking at how Facebook and Brightcove can combine to be a powerful tool in both the Push and Pull video syndication models.

I'll post my slides up here after the show but feel free to come on down and learn not about my stuff but other great presentations around developing with Facebook.

I've been reading a great post by fellow Brightcove Blogger Chris Little over at our Ecosystem blogroll about how Brightcove Players have been whitelisted by Facebook. 

This essentially means that a user can share a video from your player/site and have it appear in their FB Newsfeed for immediate inline playback.

Chris Little shows three ways to integrate your Brightcove video with Facebook, in three articles adapted from Chris's Brightcove Ecosystem blog:

We recently worked with Facebook to enable playback of Brightcove video in the 'News Feed.' Now Brightcove publishers can allow their users to share content into their News Feeds on Facebook*.

Mashable has some nice stats today on the popularity of various viral sharing services and email. Here in Professional Services land at Brightcove we've integrated with Clearspring's AddThis widget quite a bit, which is a nice one-click way to post a link to just about every viral/social/bookmarky service out there.

Facebook released the 'Live Stream Box' to their developer community last Wednesday. As you may recall, this was used by CNN for the presidential inauguration - I wrote about it here.

Quick update to my post last month, a couple of our customers have already updated their Facebook Fan pages to include Brightcove video! Check it out:

FX
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dexter-on-FX-UK/66266495963?v=app_4949752878

US Army
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/USarmy?v=app_6009294086&viewas=783147299

Want to add video to your Facebook Fan Page? Here are the steps to get you there: